The premise of California Bird Talk is that if you know just a bit about how and why birds sing
or call out to each other,
you'll have much more fun listening to them, no matter whether you live in a city
or out in the country.

Each California Bird Talk program is 2 minutes long and uses lots of sound. Most of the
sound, of course,
is of the birds themselves. But we also use analogies to musical instruments or the human voice
to understand how birds sing.

We ask bird song experts how birds make those wonderful sounds, and why.
But mostly we listen to lots of
California birds, repeating their songs and calls, or even slowing them down to hear
what birds themselves can hear.

California Bird Talk is a public radio project produced and hosted by Rusten Hogness.